All 12 Uses of
repent
in
The Scarlet Letter
- I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent, and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties; or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them in another state of being.†
Chpt Intr.
- It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interference, a sufficient space was allowed them for repentance of the evil and corrupt practices into which, as a matter of course, every Custom-House officer must be supposed to fall.†
Chpt Intr.
- It behoves you; therefore, to exhort her to repentance and to confession, as a proof and consequence thereof.†
Chpt 3 *
- That, and thy repentance, may avail to take the scarlet letter off thy breast.†
Chpt 3
- To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain!†
Chpt 11
- This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.†
Chpt 12
- She deemed it her crime most to be repented of, that she had ever endured and reciprocated the lukewarm grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own.†
Chpt 15
- Had seven long years, under the torture of the scarlet letter, inflicted so much of misery and wrought out no repentance?†
Chpt 15
- You have deeply and sorely repented.†
Chpt 17
- Why shouldst thou tarry so much as one other day in the torments that have so gnawed into thy life? that have made thee feeble to will and to do? that will leave thee powerless even to repent?†
Chpt 17
- A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.†
Chpt 18
- Partly supported by Hester Prynne, and holding one hand of little Pearl's, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale turned to the dignified and venerable rulers; to the holy ministers, who were his brethren; to the people, whose great heart was thoroughly appalled yet overflowing with tearful sympathy, as knowing that some deep life-matter—which, if full of sin, was full of anguish and repentance likewise—was now to be laid open to them.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(repent) to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future